Meuse
a department in France, touching Belgium in the N.; area, 2,405 square miles; pop. about 275,000. Cap ital, Bar-le-Duc. During the World War it was the scene of prolonged and heavy fighting. See MEUSE-ARGONNE BATTLES.
MEUSE (muhz), a river of western, Europe, flowing through the N. E. part of France, Belgium, and southern Holland; rises in the department of Haute- Marne, France, 10 miles N. E. of Langres, and after a N. E. course of 400 miles, nearly half of which is in France, it enters the North Sea by three mouths, the Meuse on the N., the Flakkee in the middle, and the Grevelingen on the S. It is navigable three-fourths of its length, as far as Verdun, department of the Meuse,